How much does Minnesota State High School League Foundation give?

Minnesota State High School League Foundation reported 84 itemized grants totaling $742,864, out of $1,195,875 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 60 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does Minnesota State High School League Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (98%), Recreation & Sports (2%), Health (0%).

Who are Minnesota State High School League Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Saint Paul Public Schools ($338k), Minneapolis Public School ($202k), Robbinsdale Schools Isd 281 ($140k).

Does Minnesota State High School League Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Minnesota State High School League Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST), Think Small, Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation.

Where is Minnesota State High School League Foundation based?

Minnesota State High School League Foundation is based in MN.

Minnesota State High School League Foundation

Minnesota State High School League Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Minnesota State High School League Foundation

The Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) Foundation is a nonprofit association, serving both public and private schools, created to compliment the MSHSL by providing support for Minnesota's high school youth to participate in athletic and fine arts.

$1.2M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$28k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$2.9MRecreation & Sports$49kHealth$7kYouth Development$5k

02FY2025 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 84 grants below total $742,864, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,195,875 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $453,011 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k60 grants · $390k
$10k–50k24 grants · $353k

$6,857

Median grant

States reached

$1.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Austin High School	$28,180
Minnesota State High School League	$20,000
Shakopee High School	$18,384
Osseo High School	$17,179
St Paul Como Park High School	$16,133
St Paul Harding High School	$15,728
Park Center High School	$15,383
Apple Valley High School	$15,044
Robbinsdale Armstrong High School	$14,304
Columbia Heights High School	$14,264
Roseville Area High School	$14,159
St Cloud Area School District	$14,000
St Paul Washington Tech Magnet	$13,906
North High School	$13,637
Robbinsdale Cooper High School	$13,393

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.6M · 56 repeat orgs$348k to everyone else

56 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.6M

$199k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%

+18%

Still filing today

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

MS
MINNESOTA STATE HIGH SCHOOL LEAGUE
3× · 2023–2025 · $65k · revenue +6%
HA
HIAWATHA ACADEMIES
2× · 2023–2025 · $26k · revenue +1%
HC
Hmong College Prep Academy
3× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +41%

Funded once

NS
NEVIS SCHOOL DIST #308
one grant, 2020 · $13k
EC
EAST CENTRAL MN EDUCATIONAL CABLE C
one grant, 2019 · $11k
IS
INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 2752
one grant, 2024 · $9k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

04the grantee network

6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 112 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

6/6

Grantees still filing

5/6

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,883,966Education$62,980

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)NH64.7× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Think Small · Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Communitygiving · Round It Up America Inc · Tickets for Kids Foundation · Share Our Strength · Northland Foundation · Project Lead the Way Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Minnesota State High School League Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Minnesota State High School League Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home